Security News

Microsoft Releases Mitigations for Spectre-Like 'Variant 4' Attack
2018-06-13 05:47

Updates released by Microsoft on Tuesday for its Windows operating system add support for a feature that should prevent attacks involving the recently disclosed speculative execution vulnerability...

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, a bank heist in Canada, and more
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

A Spectre solution, a (very) brief Cloudflare outage, and a bank heist in Canada
2018-06-02 00:24

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting...

Google Patches 34 Browser Bugs in Chrome 67, Adds Spectre Fixes
2018-05-30 15:32

Google has rolled out its newest browser version (Chrome 67.0.3396.62) for Windows, Mac and Linux this week with new security fixes and biometric features.

Intel’s ‘Virtual Fences’ Spectre Fix Won’t Protect Against Variant 4
2018-05-24 15:18

The new hardware-based protections Intel announced earlier in March it was embedding into new chips will only protect against Spectre and Meltdown – but not the newly disclosed Variant 4, sources said.

Researchers Say More Spectre-Related CPU Flaws On Horizon
2018-05-22 21:20

Yet another speculative execution side channel flaw has been disclosed in processors - and security experts warn that more may be out there.

New Spectre-like flaw found in CPUs using speculative execution
2018-05-22 20:13

A new flaw that can allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information on affected systems has been discovered in modern CPUs. CVE-2018-3639, discovered by independently by Google Project...

Another Spectre-Like CPU Vulnerability
2018-05-22 14:38

Google and Microsoft researchers have disclosed another Spectre-like CPU side-channel vulnerability, called "Speculative Store Bypass." Like the others, the fix will slow the CPU down. The German...

Intel Responds to Spectre-Like Flaw In CPUs
2018-05-22 14:03

Intel on Monday acknowledged that its processors are vulnerable to another Spectre-like speculative execution side channel flaw that could allow attackers to access information.

Spectre and Meltdown Flaws: Two More Variants Discovered
2018-05-22 12:48

More CPU Flaws Found in Intel, AMD, ARM and IBM Power ProcessorsResearchers have discovered two new Spectre/Meltdown variants: variant 3a, a rogue system register read, and variant 4, a...